What were New Yorkers thinking? Consider the events of these past two weeks to see the irony of political juxtaposition. Last week the Wall Street Journal’s Dan Henninger wrote that what we are now witnessing with the unraveling of Obamacare amid a tangled web of epic technological failure and hundreds of thousands of citizens losing coverage or experiencing skyrocketing premiums lies about all of the above some extending back to 2010 and new lies about the lies
is the failure of the very idea of progressive government. Not liberal government. Progressive government…. Forty years from now the millennials who in 2008 and 2012 believed in and voted for the progressive ideal — limitless mandated state-led goodness — can tell their grandchildren they watched it fall apart in 2013…. What made [Obamacare] peculiarly progressive were the mandates…. The essence of modern Democratic progressivism is: “You will participate in what we have created for you and you will comply with the law’s demands….”
[W]ith ObamaCare and its details touching so many people all at once it has become impossible not to recognize that [it] is an offensive ideological exercise not merely an entitlement program. By Mr. Obama’s own admission this law is the way he wants the world to work in theUS— whether in health education energy infrastructure or finance.
And yet ironically at the precise moment that the real-world implications of Obamacare’s progressive regime of enforced uniformity dictated by all-knowing mandarins have begun to hit home for most Americans my fellow New York City citizens will by the time these words are read likely have chosen as mayor someone who was endorsed by Obamacare’s father himself for the very reason that “[p]rogressive change is the centerpiece of Bill de Blasio’s vision for New York City.”
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